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      The Dangers of Interpretation
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      Art and Artists in Henry James and Thomas Mann

      The Dangers of Interpretation

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      The Dangers of Interpretation book

      Art and Artists in Henry James and Thomas Mann
      ByIlona Treitel
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1996
      eBook Published 30 August 2019
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315861357
      Pages 336
      eBook ISBN 9781315861357
      Subjects Language & Literature
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      Treitel, I. (1996). The Dangers of Interpretation: Art and Artists in Henry James and Thomas Mann (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315861357

      ABSTRACT

      First published in 1996. This comparative study investigates thematic and technical similarities in the works of the two authors who shared a cultural heritage and achieved comparable status in their separate literary traditions. Drawing upon theories by Bloom, Bakhtin, and Lacan, the book examines ways in which Henry James and Thomas Mann treat the creative artist and analyze the creative and interpretive processes in their fiction. The texts covered range from early works to their great modern novels: The Golden Bowland Doctor Faustus To a great extent, the similarities between the works stem from the authors' preoccupation with artistic responsibility. Adopting Bloom's claim that the creative activity is an interpretive one, and that the reader, as well as the writer, interprets a text into being the book also investigates the reader's responsibility in confronting the dilemmas challenging James' and Mann's artist figures. Such challenges are "the dangers of interpretation" discussed in this book. Index. Bibliography.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |10 pages

      Introduction

      chapter Chapter 1|29 pages

      The Making of an Artist by Himself and Others Roderick Hudson, "Little Herr Friedemann," "The Dilettante," "Little Lizzy," Tonio kröger

      chapter Chapter 2|30 pages

      "The Crisis of Representativeness" The Tragic Muse, Royal Highness

      chapter Chapter 3|41 pages

      The Artist as Impostor Felix Krull, "The Aspern Papers," The Sacred Fount

      chapter Chapter 4|34 pages

      Two Beasts in the Jungle The Beast in the Jungle, Death in Venice

      chapter Chapter 5|37 pages

      Art, Disease and Decay Buddenbrooks, The Wings of the Dove

      chapter Chapter 6|53 pages

      Damnation or Salvation? The Golden Bowl, Doctor Faustus

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